Dear Sir, - I am very pleased to see that we are once more getting letters from monopedes. I have just finished reading the Triple No. with photos of "Single High Heel" and "Another Monopede." I do hope you will publish more of them. I am enclosing the following cutting from one of our daily newspapers.
The extraordinary case of a former nurse who produced artificially upon herself the symptoms of a certain form of gangrene so successfully that her fingers and subsequently an arm was amputated in good faith is reported in the current "British Medical Journal."
After a number of operations she again produced a piece of "gangrene" on an other part of her skin and was admitted to hospital for observation. This time her efforts were detected, and her remaining limb being firmly bandaged so that she could not get at it, the condition instantly cleared.
According to the famous London specialist who treated and now describes the case, this sort of thing is not rare. Quite a number of patients have from time to time deliberately produced lesions on themselves to such an effect that amputation becomes inevitable. Though sometimes the self-inflictions may be committed in moments of hysteria, there seems to be no doubt that other occasions have shown the act to be deliberately planned weeks ahead.
This shows that Wallace Stort's heroine, "Lady Moira Pomeroy" in "Dr. Nicholas" is not a case of vivid imagination, as some of your readers might think.
Yours truly,
Magpie